Correlates of condom use with “main” and “concurrent” sex partners among urban youth in post-conflict Liberia

This paper presents baseline findings on correlates of condom use with “main” and “concurrent” sex partners among Liberian youth (ages 15–17) in Liberia. With Liberia having recently emerged from fourteen years of civil war, this paper is one of only a few published reports of the sexual risk behaviors of urban youth residing in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. The analysis was limited to highly, sexually active Liberian adolescents who reported having sex with both “main” and “concurrent” sex partners in the last three months (n = 214). Data were used from a baseline survey of a community randomized controlled trial of an HIV prevention intervention. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess correlates of condom use among respondents who used condoms with both main and concurrent partners, when compared to respondents who used condoms with main partners only, and when compared to respondents who used condoms with concurrent partners only. Findings suggest that among Liberian adolescent...